We recently bid farewell to IMLS’s first international fellow, Maisy Stapleton, CEO of Museums & Galleries New South Wales, the key support agency for the museum and gallery sector in the Australian state that includes Sydney. Read more
WebWise
2009: Digital Debates
The
10th annual WebWise
Conference was held in
Washington, DC, February 25-27, 2009. Sessions featured library
and museum leaders as well as experts outside of the cultural
heritage community who stimulated conversation and reflected
on the challenges posed by emerging technologies.
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International Strategic Partnership Initiative
We live in a global society and American libraries and museums
have so much to share with, and learn from, people engaged
in library and museum work throughout the world. Read
more about our international strategic partnership initiative.
Stuart-Hobson Middle School Discovers and Saves Archival Treasures
For decades, irreplaceable PTA scrapbooks, historical school photos, and roll books dating from
1926 to 1967 languished in a little-used room of Capitol Hill’s Stuart-Hobson Middle School. Rediscovered during the 2006 renovation of the school library, the archival treasures shed light on
the ethnic and national origins of the families, parents’ occupations, and outbreaks of serious
diseases such as scarlet fever. In 2007, school librarian Janice McKinnon applied for and received a
grant from the District of Columbia Public Library (DCPL) to rescue the documents and develop a school
archives. Read more
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